The purpose of this project is to simplify the process of antenna location selection for PCS cellular carriers.The current process involves extensive research into candidate areas and includes such factors as landuse, population, and distance to other sites. It is believed that by simplifying the process into a spatial multi-criteria analysis on the study area, much of the initial time intensive candidate selection can be eliminated.

     This project involved the area within a 1 kilometer buffer around the city of Burnaby, B.C.  It involves a hypothetical PCS network.Coverage holes (areas without adequate PCS coverage) were found in this network, providing a starting point for potential new antenna sites.

     Then, various inputs relevant to antenna site selection were gathered.These inputs include landuse, population, proximity to high traffic corridors (freeways, etc.), slope, elevation, and proximity to existing antenna sites for the same hypothetical network.

     These inputs were then overlayed.The specifics of the overlaying can be found in the methodology section.The result was a continuous field layer of the study area with each cell containing a "suitability" value for PCS antenna location.Through further analysis of this "suitability" layer, the top site candidates were chosen.